Novel not new: A True End Podcast

Novel Not New is a visual novel game club with a queer focus and a casual bent. Every month, join Jen Unkle, Six Dettmar, and Em Marko for a critical and fun conversation about a new visual novel game. Our favorites will be dated, murders will be solved, lives will be lived, and all bad ends will be expunged from memory as we read our way through this most literary of video game genres. Novel is right in the name!

Recent Episodes

We’re back with one of our longest, most involved episodes yet as we take a look at the (in)famous Ladykiller in a Bind. What is it like to play a death game with no death? Just how much can you get away with being nice when you have to play an asshole? And really, what is UP with the Swimmer, geez?? All this and more as we talk over this surprising visual novel.

We return, Reader, to the mystic Rites once again, for tales of corrupted saves and questionable sacrifice as we explore the strange lands of Supergiant’s third game, Pyre. Join us as we travel to purgatory and back in our quest to answer once and for all: can magic basketball be a visual novel?

We finish up the year with a tale of cold winds and warm hearts as we nestle up to a burly lady with Rose of Winter! Adventures in size play, vore, time travel, gender reversals, and more as we explore dangerous fantasy worlds and lighthearted romantic trysts. And all of it while we suffer the worst song loops possible. Thank you everyone for your support and see you in the new year!

We’re back for a trek underground to a train filled with robots and aspirations for a better tomorrow. Come with us as we explore short fiction in games, the right way to do developer commentary, and whether it matters or not if choice matters. Workers, rise up! Gamers, rise up!